Git - git-send-email Documentation

Git - git-send-email Documentation

Use gmail as the smtp server

To use git send-email to send your patches through the GMail SMTP server, edit ~/.gitconfig to specify your account settings:

[sendemail]      smtpEncryption = tls      smtpServer = smtp.gmail.com      smtpUser = yourname@gmail.com      smtpServerPort = 587

Once your commits are ready to be sent to the mailing list, run the following commands:

$ git format-patch --cover-letter -M origin/master -o outgoing/  $ edit outgoing/0000-*  $ git send-email outgoing/*

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